Personalized Grit Lab Report
Hi Felipe,
Welcome to your personalized Grit Lab report!
We will go week by week, reviewing everything you have told us through Poll Everywhere.
We hope this will help you reflect on what you learned and experienced during Grit Lab.
Here's how you started. On week one, after learning the basics of grit:
You rated your passion as Stage 4: I have an interest I'm actively pursuing, voluntarily devoting more than 3 hours of "free time" each week
...and your perseverance as Stage 5: Other people would tell you that I not only hold myself to a standard that is higher than what is explicitly asked of me, I also actively seek feedback about how to improve.
Here's a graph:
Then, you learned about goal setting, planning, and deliberate practice.
You established a wish, imagined its associated outcome, identified potential personal obstacles, and then planned accordingly, using implementation intentions.
Did it go according to plan?
And here is how much you learned
In week four, we discussed feedback.
You told us that you felt "worthy" when receiving negative feedback,
...and "upbeat" when recieveing positive feedback.
We then turned to learning about stress.
In week 5, you reported feeling "nearly an extreme amount" of stress in your life right now, the primary source of it being my job..
We also talked about adversity and failure.
Although related, adversity and failure are different:
Adversity happens to us, whereas failure is something for which we are generally more responsible.
Perhaps that is why you said that failure had made you feel down.
However, how we interpret stress and failure matters...
You said that you believe it is false that the effects of stress are negative and should be avoided,
...and that it is true that stress facilitates learning and growth.
Interestingly, research has found that people who believe that stress can facilitate learning and growth experience enhanced performance, well-being and health.
On week six, we talked about mentors
...you said for you, your most important mentor was someone other than a teacher, coach, etc..
Here's how you described him or her:
You also wrote a gratitude letter to someone else. Do you remember what you said and how it made you feel?
On week eight, we talked about interest.
You saw this picture.
You rated it as
10/10 in enjoyment,
9/10 in interestingness, and
10/10 in novelty.
What about Francis Bacon's Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef?
